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Gospel remission, or, A treatise showing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin…Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin…
Gospel remission, or, A treatise showing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptoms of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.]Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptomes of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.]
London: printed for Dor. Newman, 1668
Gospel Remission. › Chapter 16: Of the several Mistakes of Men about the Pardon of their Sins.
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so that the ground of faith is not to look unto God merely through his son that so I may have pardon; but thus, I must come to have Christ to be mine; I must be married with Christ, and so through my union with the person of Christ, I come to have all that Christ hath done and suffered to be made over to me; and therefore when I come to look upon the riches of the grace of God in the mediation of his son; I must come with an eye of faith, to be married unto Christ, and Christ with me, the riches of Gods grace in Christ was opened before; we now make use of it as a trial to show the danger of false grounds in relying upon God for pardon.
so that the ground of faith is not to look unto God meerly through his son that so I may have pardon; but thus, I must come to have Christ to be mine; I must be marryed with Christ, and so through my union with the person of Christ, I come to have all that Christ hath done and suffered to be made over to me; and therefore when I come to look upon the riches of the grace of God in the mediation of his son; I must come with an eye of faith, to be marryed unto Christ, and Christ with me, the riches of Gods grace in Christ was opened before; we now make use of it as a trial to shew the danger of false grounds in relying upon God for pardon.
Further, Though it be through the mercy of God to pardon sin; yet it does not work thus, viz. You have sinned, and my law requires such and such obedience, to be performed on such terms, or else you must perish, but I through my mercy will remit something of the rigour and strictness of the Law: And most people confess, that by the strictness of the Law they are condemned, but they hope the mercy of God will grant some remission of the Law; as it is with men, if all Penal statutes should be executed it would be very hard; but there is a Chancery to abate something of the rigour, and strictness of penal statutes; and thus men think to come to have pardon, and deal with God after the manner of men; you think the crying to God for mercy will abate something of the strictness, and severity of the Law; but you mistake in taking this way to get peace and reconciliation with God; to look upon Gods mercy to lye in this, to remit something of the strictness and severity of the Law: No but the work of Gods mercy lies in this, to find out a surety for you, and to transact the debt upon him.